New laboratory building for the Criminal Science and Technology Institute (CTI) in Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is planning the construction of a new laboratory building for the Criminal Science and Technology Institute (CTI) for 60 million euros. The institute is part of the State Office of Criminal Investigation and currently employs around 120 people, including chemists, biologists, physicists and engineers from various disciplines. It conducts scientific, forensic and identification investigations and prepares expert reports.

The new laboratory building to be erected (S1 and S2 laboratories) must be built in a sustainable manner and be certified in the "Gold" standard of the Sustainable Building Assessment System (BNB) in the system variant New Laboratory Building. Due to the BNB Gold certification, the economic achievement of a high energy efficiency of the building is of great importance, for which KREBS+KIEFER is responsible. The aim of the project is to design the plant engineering and equipment of the laboratories in the sense of an integral planning in order to minimize the energy requirement for the operation of the laboratories through the use of bundled, highly efficient and innovative technologies and to adapt them specifically to the solidium.

Together with the interdisciplinary team, KREBS+KIEFER is working out, under the project management of Dipl.-Ing. Max Jäger, an innovative concept networked across all specialist areas of building physics, building and room acoustics, noise protection and BNB certification, in order to achieve the demanding goals from the certification. The new building is scheduled for completion by the end of 2022.